Joanna Midgley on losing her mother to coronavirus: ‘This is a completely different way of people ending their lives’

The trauma of losing loved ones, the struggle to say goodbye in the age of coronavirus – an experience which is sadly becoming all too common across the UK and throughout the rest of the world.

Pat Midgley died of the Covid-19 virus in a hospital in Sheffield yesterday. Despite being 82 years old, she was still active as a Labour councillor in the city. She and her husband had celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary last year.  Her daughter Joanna Midgely described how suddenly the illness came on.